history of film

paper film

1885

the first film was on roll and flexible by George Eastman in 1885

louis le prince

1886

Louis Le prince is granted an American dual patent on a 16 lens device that combines a motion picture camera with a projector.

LPCC-type 16

1887

Louis Le prince's 16 lens camera is made in the united states and the film man walking around a corner is filmed using it this year.

Thomas Edison meeting

1888

Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film.

Eastman Kodak

1889

Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid

first moving pictures on film

1890

the first moving pictures was developed on celluloid film by William friese greene, a British inventor, in Hyde park, London in 1889 the process was patented in 1890.

William K. L. Dickson

1891

William K. L. Dickson successfully develops a working prototype of the kinetoscope which moves horizontally.

final kinetoscope revisions

1892

The final revisions to the Kinetoscope are made, including a vertical transport and wider film. This becomes the de facto technical specification for all silent film by 1909.

The Black Maria

1893

Thomas Edison builds Americas first movie studio The Black Maria.

First kinetoscope presentation

1894

The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.

first kineopticon 35mm movie camera

1895

Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres build and run the first working 35 mm movie camera in Britain, the Kineopticon. Their first films include Incident at Clovelly Cottage, The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race and Rough Sea at Dover.

First film to audience in UK

1896

Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon, the first in Britain, to the Royal Photographic Society at the Queen's Hall in London. This is the first film show to an audience in the U.K. In London